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Oscillations OF the Earth's Crust.

First among these oscillations of the
earth we may notice the slow up or
down movements which are probably
of the same general nature and of the
same origin as the movements which
build the continents, only much more
rapid; go rapid, indeed, that they may
be observed from decade to decade, or,
at least, from century to century. In
this class we include the down-sinking
of the coast of New Jersey, the upris-
ing of the northern part of Scandina-
via, or the oscillation of the shore on
movements, which, though in O geolog-
ical sense rapid, rarely change the level
of the land more than foot or two In
a century. appear to be divided into
three distinct classes, as follows: First,
those which are due to the imposition
of heavy weight upon the earth's sur
face, or to the removal of such weight.
A good case of this is the deep de-
preston of the northern part of
North America, where the glacial
sheet came upon it, and its rapid
re-elevation when the ice melted
away. Next, those which are due
to the formation of great fault or
break through the rocks as they are
showed about by the compressive forces
which build mountain chains. And,
finally, those which are due to the
movements of volcanic gases and the
lava which they propel toward the era
ter, whence, in time, they are to be
discharged.
Of these slow movements the most
interesting, because the best known, is
that which is shown 10y the ruins of the
temple of Jupiter Scraps, near Naples.
We see by the evidence of these ruins
that the temple has sunk down since
the Christian era, so that the marine
animals bored into the marble columns
at the height of more than twenty. feet
above the present level of the sea; it
then rose up to its original level, and is
now again sinking at the rate of one
inch in three or four years. A similar
movement connected with the process
of mountain building has been observed
at Subiaco, about forty miles to the
north of Rome. A hundred years or so
ago the church of Jenne was invisible
from Subiaco, while now it is in plain
view over the summit of the interven-
ing mountain. This change can only
be explained by an alteration in the
height of the mountain arches Of this
district. Prof. N. s. Shaler, i,e Scrib-
ner's Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
SINGULAR ACCIDENT,
Five Persons Killed Near Chicago by
the Collapse Of Water
Tank.
The Great Reservoir Weakened by the
Collision of Two Freight
Trains.
Chicago special.l

A terrible and peculiar accident occurred
Sunday afternoon at Palatine, station
twenty-six miles northeast of Chic ago, on
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
BY the bursting of large railroad water
tank five men were killed outright and four
were seriously injured. At an early hour
in the morning two freight trains collided
at Palatine. The engines were wrecked
and number of cars demolished and
hurled from the track. The COLI
sion occurred directly beside a large
watertank which stands near the
depot. The ground was torn up,
and some of the supports must have been
lowered. The water had a capacity of
100, 900 gallons, and contained at the time
about $4,000 gallons. A wrecking train
was sent out from Chicago, and large
force Of men set 10 work 10 clear mp the
wreck. AS it was Sunday, and the people
of the village and neighborhood were idle,
large crowd of men and boys gathered
around the scene of the wreck, watching
the work of the wrecking hands. As the
greatest amount of work was being done
right beside the tank, the largest
crowd of spectators collected there. Men
and boys stood around and under
the water-tank, and leaned against the
large posts supporting it. Suddenly
the discharge of ten ordinary pieces of
musketry, and the structure collapsed.
The great sides of the tank were forced
outward, the hoops parted like threads,
and, under the weight of $4,000
gallons of water, the heavy, water
soaked timbers and wrought iron
descended on the heads Of the unfor-
Inmates underneath. 1t would be impossi-
BILE to picture the sight. Hemmed under
the parted tank, and for a moment totally
submerged in the deluge that followed,
were the people caught in the crush. When
the water had flowed off-the work of but a
second-five men, instantly killed, could be
seen through the crevices of the piled up
slaves.
The following are those who were killed
and injured: Edward Wenke, of Palatine,
killed; William CAIRNS, of Palatine, killed;
George Myer, boy, of Arlington Heights.
killed; William Myer, brother of the pre-
ceding, of Arlington Heights, killed; Fred
erick Boeger, of Arlington Heights, killed;
John Asmust, Of Palatine, crushed about
the head, probably fatal; Charles Storms,
n boy, of Palatine. probably fatally injured;
Augustus Fisher, of Palaiine, severely
bruised; unknown man, of Palatine, badly
bruised. Half dozen others received
minor injuries, but were able TO get to their
homes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
LABOR GAINS AND DEMOCRATIC LOSSES.
The Wonderful Growth OF the Former mt
tho Expense of the Latter since 1884.

Tho Wonderful Growth OF the Former at
tho Expense of the Latter since 1884.
The labor vote in the three great cities.
New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, in
1884, was per cent. of the total vote cast.
Last fall in New York, and this spring in
Chicago and Cincinnati, this vote was one
third of the whole. The Democratic vote
in these three cities in 1884 was large
enough to make New York Democratic,
TO render Ohio doubtful, and to reduce the
Republican majority in Illinois to the low
est figures in Presidential year in the his
torp of the party. The vote cast for Mayor
Hewitt in New York City was too small
ever to carry the State for the Democrats
in Presidential year, and this was equally
true of the vote polled by Judge Peckham.
the Democratic candidate for Court of APP
peals. In Chicago this spring the Demo-
cratic vote disappeared entirely, and in
Cincinnati it dropped to half its average
total. The Republican vote In these cities
ut these elections fell not far below the
average of an off year.
We need draw no differences for the
future from these facts. We need simply
state them. We are very far from confus-
ing and confounding the socialist poll in
Chicago with the honest labor protest
against bad government in Cincinnati, or
either with the vote for Henry George,
compounded of many and diverse elements,
part socialist, part Labor, and part the po-
htical flotsam of great city The Repub-
lican vote in Chicago, like the Democratic
vote in New York for Mayor Hewitt, rep
resented the united protest of men from
both parties against the threats OF social
ism-with this difference, that in Chicago
the Democratic vote disappeared and in
New York the Republican vote made q
strong fight on its own account and polled
its fair proportion of its aggregate vote in
1884. But with these qualifications and
limitations the following table lin which
Hamilton County does duty for Cincinnati
in 1884 tells its own remarkable story of
the enormous growth of the Labor vote at
the expense Of the Democratic party:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
Democratic Nepotism.

In the days of President Grant, when he
ventured to appoint two or three of his
distant kinsmen to some petty offices, there
was a great howl from the Democratic
press as to nepotism. There would be an
astonishing exhibit if the press would now
show the extent to which nepotism is run
ming under Cleveland and all the Demo-
Gratis in high office. The reform President
has appointed several of his own and his
wife's kinsmen to good Offices. The Demo-
cratic Senators, taking the cue from the
White House, have INDUCED extravagantly
in the same favoritism 10 their relatives.
The appointment of E. l.. Pugh, of Ala
bama; son of Senator Pugh, as clerk of
the Interstate Railway Commission, is the
seventeenth relative of that Democratic
leader appointed 10 lucrative Offices under
Cleveland. Nearly all of the Democratic
Senators have from six to dozen of their
kinsmen in office. Their Interpretation OF
civil-servic reform evidently is to get as
many of your own kin into place as you
can.-Erchdn1e.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
One Result of the Change.

During Republican administration the
Railway Mail Service reached the highest
point of efficiency ever known in this coun-
try, surprising, in the chief elements tha t
distinguished it, the transactions of any
private business establishment. The
Democrats proposed among other things to
reform that department of the Government
if given chance. Last year they had all
the chance they wanted. Nearly all the
Republicans officials had been removed,
and the service was entirely in their own
hands, and they had had enough expert
ence TO be able to show what they could do
as reformers. Here is the result:
Errors in the Railway Mail Service in
1886. 49,. ZlIO, l4f
Errors average for five years, ISIS, in
Railway Mail service .................. 95S,6S
That is blooming record for reformers
to make-more than twice as many errors
during last year as were made on an aver
age during the five years of Republican
administration preceding. The missent
mail matter, the letters that were destroyed
in delivery, the letters that never were de-
livered, all figure in the two million errors
of last year. That is one of the beautiful
showings of Democratic administration.
Iona State Re0ister
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
1884.
1885 n
Making all allowances for fusion in Chi

Making all allowances for fusion In Chi
cago, where a straight-out Democratic
ticket would probably have polled $4,000
votes or SO, it still remains true that the
Labor vote has grown twentyfold, and the
Democratic vote has been cut in two in the
middle. With the Democratic vote of
these three cities at even 150, 600, the North
is Republican. With the city populations
of the country casting Labor vote this
size, or half this size, there is not single
Northern State whose Electoral vote would
be counted for a Democratic candidate.
AS we said before, these are notinferences,
they are facts--facts of the first political
magnitude.
We have no desire to blink the fact that
in all city elections this spring, and in one
State election local and special causes
played their share in changing the relative
vote OF the different parties. The Rhode
Island election itself is proof how straight
a blow can be hit at bad methods in poll
tics when the eyes of voters are open.
Cleveland, where bad Republican city
ticket was buried because forty-three per
cent. of the Republican voters stayed away
from the polls, and Republican business
men voted for the Democratic candidate for
Mayor, offers more proof of the same order.
But neither of these instances changes
the broad TACT mat the LABOR vote mas
grown to amazing proportions in three
years at the expense or the Democratic
party. The one great Republican city of
the country-Philadelph the only one
in which no Labor vote was cast. In Mil
waukee. where fusion ticket was run by
the Democrats and Republicans against a
Labor candidate he pulled through only by
the narrowest vote of his opponent, whose
heaviest vote was for the most part polled
in the Democratic wards of the city. AS it
was, the city was carried by the Labor vote,
and the election was turned into defeat
for socialism only by the outlying towns.
With the exception of two or three Repub-
lican wards in Milwaukee and Dubuque,
which was carried this week by the Knights
of Labor, there is nowhere in the country
Republican city vote which has added to
the Labor poll.
The Labor vote comes from the Demo-
cratic party and in its going it has taken
half or all the voting strength of this party
in the great cities of the country, and
without these cities the Democratic party
North is weak indeed.-Philadelp
Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
THE JURY DISAGREES.
No Verdict Reached in the Trial Of
Arensdof for Shooting Had
dock.
Eleven of the Twelve Good Men and
True for Acquittal to One for
Conviction.

The jury in the case Of John Arensdorf,
the wealthy brewer who has been on trial
at Sioux City for several weeks past for the
murder of Rev. George @. Haddock, has
been discharged, having been unable to
reach an agreement. The jury stood eleven
for acquittal to one for conviction. The
latter was proof against the appeals and
arguments of his eleven obstinate ASSOC
ciates, and as they were equally fixed in
their opinions, the contest ends in drawn
battle. 1t has been protracted and weari-
some trial, involving the examination of
over one hundred and twenty witnesses,
with an immense volume of testimony.
That vast amount of perjury has been
committed is apparent to all, as shown by
the conflicting testimony. 1t is not deter
mined when another trial will be had. II
is probable it will be in the May term.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
A Society Conversation.

"Millie, dear, what is the name Of
your affianced?'
"Why, Clara, don't you know? It's
Herbert Montague"
"Oh, how sweet! Is he rich?'
"Well off"
And keeps a carriage?"
Several of them
SLOW NIGEL And fine horses, I sup
poser"
~Yes."
"And what is his business, dear?"
"He keeps livery stable"
"Ohp-Terds Strings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27

THE term "blue stocking applied
to literary ladies, was orig nally con-
ferred on society comprising both
sexes in 1760. Benjamin Stillingdeet,
the naturalist, who was q prominent
member of this society. wore blue
stockings; hence the name.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27
BIRTH OF A CYCLONE.
An Ohio Farmer BehoIds n Strange Spec
tacle.
Wheeling Nv. Va. telegram |

Wheeling wv. va.) telegram
The origin of the whirlwind which devas-
tated large section of Belmont County,
Ohio, few days ago. has been definitely
fixed. A farmer living just north OF
Lloydsville, village sixteen miles west Of
this city, saw the column of dust
and leaves rise where two depres-
sons in the rolling ground formed
and allowed two currents OF wind to
cross at right angles. A little eddy started,
snokino up leaves and dirt, and momenta-
rily increasing in size until il formed coll
umn from the earth, apparently TO the sky
which advanced with fearful velocity,
through an erratic course. in a general east
erly direction, the large and upper end
keeping a course more nearly straight and
tse lower end. referred to by eye witnesses
AZ the tail, lashing about, striking a house
now and demolishing it, and then not
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27

MAaRoFF first produced sugar from
the white beet root in 1747, and in
1899 M. Achard produced excellent
sugar from it. Thence was developed
the great beet-sugar industry in
France.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27

IT is not at all certain that New York will
control the next national election. Ex-
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, declares that that
State, ms we'll as West Virginia, Tennessee,
and North Carolina, can easily be carried
by the Republicans. while Indiana is
most hopeful battlefield. The Republicans
will not need to carry all their eggs in one
basket in 1883 by good deal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27

OF the $4,000 votes cast in the last
election in Washington Territory, Is, QUO
we're cast by women.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-27

Subject OF lesson for May 8, STho Child
Moses" Ex 9: lilo.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-03-31
New York Churches.

From the New York Mail and Express.
Gotham, for town supposed to be
mortgaged to his majesty down be-
low, has good deal OF money invest
ed in churches. The total is about
$50, 100000. 1t vexes the soul OF
Col. Ingersoll that all this property is
exempt from taxes. If it bore the
share of the tax burden like other
property its contribution to the city
treasury would be about a million q
wear. Trinity church heads the list
in point of value, the figures on it be-
ing $1,000, 900. The Roman catho-
Tic cathedral on Fifth avenue comes
next at So, OOO, 900. Trinity is actually
worth at least $4,000, 900, and the
Cathedral not less than $4,000, 900.
st. Paul's is set down at 81, 75Q, 900,
which is hardly halt what any real-es-
tate broker would say it was worth.
The fashionable st. Thomas Church
on Fifth Avenues valued at $3.50, 600
and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church (Dr. Hall's), near by, at the
same figure. One Dutch Reformed
Church on the avenue stands at $780,
900; and the stylish synagogua, where
n the more progressive Hebrews wor-
ship, at $3.50, 900. One Roman Cath
olic Church (St. Paul,s) is valued at
$500, 900, and the next highest figure
in that denomination Is $3.50, 900 on
St. Stephens, the scene Of the DR.. Nc
Glynp trouble, now at an end. The
well-known Little Church Around the
| Corner is on the list at $3.50, 900.
Along Fifth avenue and Madison ave-
nue., the arteries through which the
blue blood Of Gotham flows, there are
some thirty churches ranging ia value
rom 1900, 900 to $750, 600.
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Pathetic Incident

The following incident, so full OF
pathos and simplicity, teaches it's own
lesson of kindness and love for the lit
tie ones left fatherless and motherless
on the charities of the world. 1t hap
pened few weeks ago in a Western
city, where poor widow had died,
leaving one child, q little lame boy, to
the cold charities of the world. After
his mothers funeral, the little fellow
was taken i'll from the combined re-
suits of grief and neglect, and it was
then evident that he would soon
be united to his only friend.
He was left alone much OF the day,
there being no one who could spare
the time to stay with him. 1t was
often noticed that the voice of two
persons could be heard in his little
room. But when those in charge en-
tered, he would be alone and appar-
emily asleep.
One day they listened, being quite
sure that no one was with the child,
and they overheard this strange mon
ologue:
els you right there, mammal"
eyes, my little boy, is here"
"Was you went away YETI" :,
II vented back to heaven to tell
God about my little boy"
"Did you was afraid mammal"
"No my own little boy, cause God
Is nicer'n people"
odd you told him about me NAM
MAJ"
II folded him I had a little boy
named Harry,-an'-an' -
There was loud noise of sobbing
then, and the listener without cried,
too. Presently the child's voice re-
sumed:
"Did you told God to let me come
up there, mammal"
eyes, my boy; an he said, 'Bimeby,
bimeby.'"
aMamma, Fse-so-tired-an'-an'
-sleepy-an' want to come an
stay wlth-you-and-God."
There WAS long silence then, brok-
en- by sobs. The listeners went in
after resolving in their hearts to be
hereafter very patient with the moth
erless one.
But the next day he went home to
his mother.
"Bimeby" had come.
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cncAGo:-wheat. No. 2 spring, 70 to 7sc: No.
spring, 20 to Tic; No. red. 10 to Toe. Corn,
No. 2, 36A to 3Sxc. Oats. No. 2, 244c. Rye
No. z. SAC. Barley, No. 2, 80 to 52c Flax
seed. No. /, s1.O9. Timothy seed. prime. 81 So
Pork, $40. 10 to $2O.5O. Lard $7.75 to 81. S5.
Butter, creamery. 20 to Bic; dairy, "a to 28c
Eggs, ID to 14hc.
New YoRK:-Wheat, No. Chicago, 94c; No.
] hard, 07Ac; ungraded red, 87H to 96Ac; No. 3
red, Gle; No. 2 red 93c; No. red &c. No.
white, 93c; extra red, 92Hc. Corn, ungraded. 48
to49Hc; No. 2, 49Ac. Oats, mixed Western. 81 to
42c. Eggs. Western 16h to 16Xc. Butter, cream
cry, 20 to SOC.
Observation-Disclosures, No. hard, 8Oc; No. /
Northern, 76c; No. Northern, TAG. Corn, 81
to3Sc. Bran, $12. Oats, No. white, 32c. Rye
4S to 52c Corn meal. SIS to $40. Hay $3.50
to $500. Flax seed, $1.OO.
ST. PAUL:-Wheat, No. l hard, SOC; No. 1
Northern, 7Sc; No. 2Northern. 74Hc. Corn, No.
p 4Oc. Oats. No. 2 mixed, 29hc; No. 2 white,
Bic. No. 3 white 3Oc. Barley, No. 2. 4Sc.
Rye, No. 2, 43c. Ground feed, No. !, s15; No.
2, $14. Corn meal, coarse, $14.5O. Baled hay,
No. l. $500: timothy, 80 Flax seed, 05c.
Timothy seed $1.75. Clover seed. $4.3O.
Dressed hogs, $3.50. Potatoes, SOC. Eggs, fresh
zoe.
DULUTH;-Wheat, No. / hard, 75xc.
Observation-Disclosures. 76Kc. Corn, No. 8, 4Oc.
Oats, No; white, BIG. Rye; No. SIC Bar aa
Butter, dairy. 18 to &c. Eggs, 15c.
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Cheeryble Brothers.

Readers OF nicholas Nickelby" need
not be reminded OF the "Cheery BILE
Brothers" says a writer in Temple
Bar. The originals were the Messrs.
Grant, whose extensive, if somewhat
eccentric. benevolence was we'll known;
to whom Dickens was introduced, in
company with Mr.. John Morley, by
Mr.. w. Harrison Ainsworth, at din
ner given by Mr.. Gilbert Winter in
1853. The survivor of the brothers
used always to put q sum of money
in his pocket to give away in the course
of the day. A clergyman asked him
for a subscription.
"Put your hand in my side pocket
and you shall have all you find in it,"
The parson did SO and fshed up SOW
ereign "You are welcome to it" said
Mr.. Grant, ''only mind it is the only
coin l have left"
He once asked the same clergyman
at dinner what his education cost him.
"a matter of f2, OOO," was his an
swer.
'I'm afraid" said the questioner,
Education is not good investment.
Here you spent f2, 900 on your edu-
cation, and, as you tell me, your cura-
cy is only ESQ ayear. My education
cost ME nothing, and am making q
good many thousand year. But l
dare say you will get some interest
somewhere else' looking upwardl;
"and, as l believe you are doing good,
whenever you are i'll want of couple
of hundred pounds or so, come to my
warehouse and I'll oblige you"
But they were shrewd men, their
benevolence notwithstanding. A mas
ter one day wanted some work done
which could only be managed by GER
tain skilled workman. Unfortunate
ly the man was given to drink. So a
bargain was struck, that, besides his
wages, he should have gin and water
ad libitum.
"Now mind" said the master, "you
promise to drink up what first give
you before you touch drop more"
As the work went on the man asked
for his gin.
"How much will you start with"
"Six penn rth.'
"Now gin and water, mind you; and
you must drink it all before you drink
again. Hot or cold?"
"Cold."
cali right. Here goes. Bring me a
pail of water"
It was brought, and into that the
gin was poured. The man was dumb
founded; but he was held to his bar
gain, and the work got done. AS he
went away-sober, OF course, and his
wages in his pocket-he turned round
and faced his employer.
MASTER" said ne, "there's no one
can get the better o thee but one, and
that's tn ould chap hisself."
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Beecher, Grant, aud Q Happy
Bride.

One OF the many anecdotes Of Mr..
Beecher is given by Mr.. Louis A.
Wendt, as follows: "The two depart.
ed chiefs, the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
or and U. s. Grant, were together at
public dinner given in Brooklyn not
many years ago, when Mr.. Beecher
suddenly looked at his watch and re-
marked that as the time was rapidly
nearing certain hour he would have
to ask the Company to pardon his ear
ly departure as he had marriage
ceremony to perform. Saying this
Mr.. Beecher arose from the table, and
as he did 80 General Grant, who had
been sitting next to him, removed a
rosebud from the lapel of his coat and
handing the flower to Mr.. Beecher,
said: "Will you kindly hand this to
the bride. and give to her and her flu
ture husband my best wishes?" Mr..
Beecher accepted and fulfilled the trust,
and the bride of that time still has
the faded flower, and treasures it as a
precious souvenir. "-Brooklyn Eagle.